Lakers fan settles dispute the old fashioned way: with pepper spray

Haven’t checked any message boards or comment sections today, but undoubtedly there’s some level of discontent roiling around among the Spurs faithful following last night’s collective slam dunking by the Los Angeles Clippers.

It’s sports, so if you can’t overreact, what’s the point?

As far as I know, however, nobody’s stooped as low as the Lakers fan who, apparently distraught after L.A. dropped to 1-4 with a lopsided loss at Utah, pepper-sprayed a Jazz fan outside Energy Solutions Arena.

Salt Lake City police Detective Josh Ashdown said a pair of Utah Jazz fans were attending the basketball game Wednesday night when they started trash talking with a pair of Lakers fans.

The discussion escalated and the Lakers fans challenged the Jazz fans to a fight, which they declined, Ashdown said. Security threw the two Lakers’ fans out of the game, but they apparently decided to stick around to continue the confrontation with the Jazz fans, he said.

The Lakers’ fans spotted the Jazz fans standing on the corner of 100 South and 400 West and started trash talking again. At that point, one of the Lakers’ fans pulled out pepper spray fogger and let loose with it, police said.

So let that be a lesson. See that purple and gold coming after a tough loss, just keep walking. Or get your own can of pepper spray and beat them to the punch.